For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality wa...
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of th...
Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.
Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness.
Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt veļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla.
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.
Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face.
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains from heroes and so forth...There's still plenty for you to do. And you'll do it. And when you fall in...
His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.
When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority – at least of indifference
Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.
Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chanc...
History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.’ Mathis
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due.
THERE ARE moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man; occasions when he takes refuge in good living to effa...
Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.